Volume 3: Mesa Verde/ Aztec Ruins
According to the U.S. National Park Service, Mesa Verde National Park features 5,000 known archeological sites, including 600 spectacular cliff dwellings. The name is Spanish for “Green Table,” and the area was inhabited by the Ancestral Pueblo people from AD 600 to 1300, over 700 years. (source) Mesa Verde, as well as nearby Aztec Ruins National Monument located in Aztec, New Mexico, are an important link to the Native American past of the region and provide significant economic stimulus, with well over half a million people visiting each year. (source)
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- Mesa Verde Sun Temple
- Color photograph of the Sun Temple ruins at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde and Ute Mountain from Mancos Valley
- Mesa Verde and Ute Mountain from Mancos Valley. Highway 160, the "Navajo Trail," here approaches Mesa Verde from the east. Autumn colors are quite vivid in this photograph.
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- Mesa Verde and Ute Mountain from Mancos Valley (Colo.)
- Photograph of Highway 160 during the Autumn.
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- Mesa Verde from Park Point (Colo.)
- Color photo of Mesa Verde from Park Point lookout.
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- Mesa Verde in fall color (Colo.)
- Color image looking west across the Mancos valley filled with fall-colored trees, showing Mesa Verde and the Sleeping Ute Mountain in the background.
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- Mesa Verde, The Green Tableland
- Colored print of a Paul Coze painting showing the snow-capped La Plata Mountains and the mesas of Mesa Verde, as viewed from the Park Point Lookout at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde-Cliff Palace
- A color photograph of Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Mesa Verde. Sleeping Ute Mountain
- Color view of Mesa Verde and the Sleeping Ute Mountain in southwestern Colorado.
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- Middle Room, Spruce Tree House, Mesa Verde Ruins, Colorado
- Sepia tinted photo of Middle Room of Spruce Tree House at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
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- Modified Basket Maker
- Colored print of a Paul Coze painting. Modified Basket Maker.
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- Mount Lookout (near Mancos, Colo. on road to Mesa Verde National Park)
- Photograph of Mount Lookout near Mancos, Colorado on the road to Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.